Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stand by your man, but haven't we heard enough? FAS Computing Services T or F: Every upperclass student already took this quiz, and the answers haven't changed. Correct! Now about that password... Harvard Dining Services Bag lunches in Loker: a long overdue yet stunning success. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches remind us of home. Sammy Sosa With less fanfare but more emotion--and lifting his team to a wild-card berth--the Cubs' slugger pulls even with McGwire...
...most legitimate. He turned over his documents and diaries; he told everyone, including White House lawyers, to do likewise, because he said he wanted the facts to come out. Jimmy Carter urged his lawyers and allies to cooperate in the investigation into the operations of his family's peanut warehouse in Georgia...
...marionette) cheerfully presided over Doodyville U.S.A.--home to such goofy characters as Clarabell the Clown and Flubadub. Howdy Doody ran for 13 years, partly a result of Smith's respect for his fans ("You can't kid a kid"). Among the show's contributions to the pop lexicon: the "Peanut Gallery" (his studio audience) and--sorry, Bart Simpson fans--"Cowabunga...
...network" concept pays off in Bug Juice. It's a Real World treatment of 12-to-15-year-olds away at camp. Whereas MTV's show gets mired in the inconsequential whining of twentysomethings ("I can't believe you just stuck your finger in the peanut butter, dude!"), the torture of a 13-year-old boy worried about his first kiss is piercing. Whether parents would sign TV release forms for this show is unclear (the girl who gets so homesick she wails like a coyote is going to have major therapy bills), but it's the best show about...
...ideal does not necessarily extend beyond my own American experience. My assumptions of consumer/retail conduct are culturally grounded. The image of clean, bright-eyed, smiling salespeople looking up to the next person in line with a cheery, "Can I help you?" is as blatantly American as the white bread peanut butter and jelly sandwiches which I sometimes bring to work...